CHILLING new pictures show the Bondi Beach terrorists loading a car with weapons just hours before the ghastly attack that left 15 people dead.
CCTV footage also shows Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed, 24, making a nighttime reconnaissance trip to Bondi Beach just days before the killings, police alleged.
The father-son duo are accused of firing long-barrelled guns into the crowds at a family-thronged Hanukkah celebration – killing 15 people including a 10-year-old girl.
In surveillance footage, the pair are captured walking along the footbridge from which they would later mount their attack.
They are believed to have rented a room in a shared house days before the shooting.
In the early morning of the shooting, they were captured loading “long and bulky items wrapped in blankets” into a car.
This included three firearms, four homemade bombs and two IS flags, cops revealed.
Hours later, the father and son drove to Bondi to unleash the attack.
Three homemade pipe bombs and the tennis ball bomb were thrown as they approached the bridge, police alleged.
Though they did not explode, they were assessed as “viable”.
In court documents released on Monday, police alleged the pair “meticulously planned” the attack for many months.
The pair recorded a video manifesto in October in which they sit in front of the Islamic State group flag, according to police documents.
Videos found on Naveed’s phone showed the pair were motivated by “violent extremist ideology” linked to the Islamic State group.
They include one video in which the pair sit in front of an Islamic State flag and reveal their motivation for the Bondi attack and condemn “the acts of ‘Zionists’”, police alleged.
Naveed also appears to recite a passage from the Quran in Arabic in the video, police alleged.
Authorities alleged that they carried out “firearms training” in what police said could be the New South Wales countryside.
Pictures presented in an Australian court show the Akrams shooting what appears to be long-barrelled guns in the middle of the field during the alleged training.
The police alleged: “The Accused and his father are seen throughout the video firing shotguns and moving in a tactical manner.”
Sajid was shot and killed by police at the scene. An Indian national, he entered Australia on a visa in 1998.
His 24-year-old son, unemployed bricklayer Naveed, was wounded and taken to hospital under police guard, emerging from a coma after three days.
The Australian-born citizen has been charged with terrorism, 15 murders, and 40 counts of grievous bodily harm with intent to murder.
He has also been charged with displaying a symbol of a prohibited terrorist organisation after two IS terrorist group flags were found in his car.
Early intelligence suggests the Akrams allegedly “self-radicalised”, but investigators are probing whether overseas contacts may have recently hardened their views.
Police investigation revealed that the suspects took a four-week trip to the southern Philippines, returning weeks before the shooting.
The Philippines ranked last year as the world’s 20th most dangerous country on the Global Terrorism Index, recording 22 terror attacks in 2024.
Staff of Davao City’s GV Hotel revealed that the two men stayed in their small room for most of their 28-day stay.
But it is not known what they were doing in the country.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation investigated the son in 2019 for possible radicalisation but decided he did not pose a threat.
The service also spoke to the father as part of that review, but he was able to obtain a gun licence that allowed him to hold six rifles, three of them retrieved at the scene of the shooting.
He obtained his licence in 2015 and renewed it in 2020.
